Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 1hyour future customers might never see your landing page their agent already reads your docs, tests your API, and decides in seconds consumer agents do this already + increasingly business ones if you don't have an API or an MCP, your startup doesn't exist to agents 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 13hretention >>> acquisition is a hill i'll die on unless your top of funnel is huge or your niche runs on trends 120
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 17hr/microlaunch doubled this week, 2.1k builders now🔥 i genuinely didn't think people would care this much builders talking distribution & launching stuff we're just getting started 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 05/10/20262024: Stripe + Supabase + Resend + domains 2025: move everything to Hetzner 2026: move everything to Cloudflare 2027: Claude moves everything to MCPs, keys and wallets 240
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026started building a startups search engine last week ends up being market research platform somehow classic founder move 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"build in public" has mostly been ppl building in private then posting MRR charts in public that's not building in public. that's marketing in public 570
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026we just crossed 700k unique visitors march 2024: 2,710 bootstrapped, no ads, just founders launching stuff distribution features dropping next thank you guys, seriously 240
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ok so been using opus 5.5 all day the thing just gets it. sees the big picture, catches what i miss goated at coding, design + research. it has taste sorry astra, it's not you. maybe a little 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026this week i'm building SSS tier stuff only, locked in🔥 the claude-pilled are having a very good week! 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026models like opus 5.5 make me more hopeful than ever unfair capabilities, accessible to all and people still think indie hacking is dying? 120
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026we’re building agents to do our work, right? yet we’re doing their integration work with MCP et al. not sure who’s working for whom 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026didn’t expect a subreddit to grow that fast.. 1k visitors yesterday! distribution is weird man 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i don’t currently need an agent that runs my company i just need one that finishes its job so i can do mine 120
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026if your product is an API, it better be a killer one hard to replace. easy to build on with ready-to-ship templates their startup. your growth engine 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026compiled some advice for first-time founders: - conversion before distribution - keep design clean - testimonials matter more than you think - never under-price - if you hesitate to paywall, do it! - distribution on primary channel - organic first finally, build at least a growth loop in your app 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i’ve spent too much time building alone our space is still small. i think it’s about to get a lot bigger lately i’ve been meeting founders online and in person. a few collabs are taking shape. i want more calls, more ideas, more partnerships if you’re a founder i should know, let’s talk. 230
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026first-time founders worship organic until burn out second-time founders overcorrect with paid third-time founders know picking a side was always the mistake 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026hot take: charge $0.01 per API call rather than $39/mo one infinite loop and you’ve found product-market fit 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Product experiment: slight variation on positioning. More consumer-y thinking: join startups, follow journey, participate, be part of something unique. Access unique partnerships, perks, opportunities. New angle, new OGs. How do they look? 120
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026generalist AI was killing micro-saas, that’s no secret jev makes niche experts worth building again: not skills or mcps, but entire agentic products. indies, we are soo back 120
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026First thoughts about Jev: It’s a powerful framework that feels a lot like playing with decision trees. You give it a state, questions with enums for the acceptable output results. It generates probabilities. 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the rise of jev could bring indie hacking back from the dead 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I’ve been working on something new lately. A micro-acceleration concept for founders & solopreneurs. Involves distribution, micro funding, a fair setup, partners. Feedback wanted: what’s precisely stopping you from reaching $5k/mo? 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026the cost of NOT launching a startup > the cost of building it it’s pretty soon the case. 120
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026spend $500/mo on tokens for fun spend $5k/mo on ads to find out if you have a business 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026if distribution is 10x harder than product community is at least 100x the work some founders do both for fun. deeply concerning. 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026everyone’s fighting over the same 3~4 channels maybe we’re not being weird enough: - flood giphy with gpt-image-2 ads - create an onlyfans page for your brand - flyers outside your city’s incubators - sponsor a subreddit beef about your brand silly, yes! still less competition than SEO. 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026founders building native AI products went from prompt engineering to context engineering: memory layers, structured context, loops, goals, isolated compute, sandboxes now everyone is building harnesses, routers, or orchestration layers 200
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026there’s an entire debate around DR (domain rating) some call it a vanity metric without traffic others say it still matters for GEO i honestly don’t know. i’m just happy we hit DR64 :) 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026how to build your 1st growth engine from scratch: 1. pick a traffic source 2. convert that traffic 3. get more of it repeat until VCs start DMing you. 220
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026most founders start with X, reddit, SEO or UGC then we do the math: $1/click + 2% conversion = $50 CAC our $39/mo plan starts looking scalable, that's cool weirdly, a $5 click from the right niche can be an even better deal 210
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026SEO + GEO are still the closest thing to free users🔥 Don't ignore them. 230
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 09/09/20261,000+ builders in a month🔥 our reddit community isn’t even a month old turns out founders still want places to meet peers next goal: 10,000 before 2027. wanna bet? ;) 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026founders fear Reddit bans, fair. they fear annoying people in DMs, and also fear launch days. fear actually kills more distribution than lack of time 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026low-ticket B2B looks more scalable: lower price, easier adoption, more automation until we count the churn, support, and distribution volume required. maybe $10k isn’t really high-ticket. maybe $19/mo is hard mode 120
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026hot take: more $49/mo B2B SaaS products should cost $9.99/mo with pay-as-you-go when it makes sense lower prices. way bigger market i secretly want 10x more founders building 10x more startups 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 06/09/2026domains bought ÷ products launched the founder ratio that never lies :) 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026serious founders build media around the product, unserious founders build products around their content somehow, the unserious ones make more profit who’s laughing now :) 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026unpopular opinion: if you’re scared of copycats, you probably don’t have a moat build in public. let them try 210
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026introducing the headless startup: - pick a validated market - build a powerful API layer for it - make it agent-native - target technical founders, CTOs & vibecoders - secure everything + add observability pay-as-you-go only. scale to $10k MRR with near-zero operations on your end🔥 220
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026i just can’t conceive launching a product without a real distribution plan $2k is enough to take it seriously: - SEO + GEO growth engine → $129/month × 4 = $516 - organic social → 500–1.5k clicks/month, free but time-consuming - launch platforms → 150–500 clicks, ~$300 once 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026unpopular opinion: PMF has very little to do with revenue it’s when the market pulls harder than you push. sometimes $500 MRR pulled is more PMF than $20k pushed 120
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 02/09/20263 weeks ago, i tried to put you onto growing your subreddit 500 → 900 builders since🔥 come say hi before we hit 1,000 :) the subreddit: reddit.com/r/microlaunch 010
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026name a better way to start the day than this i'll wait :) 120
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026i’m super bullish on solo human × agent startups agents running the business through memory, context & tools. humans owning the decision layer: data-driven, evals-first. distribution becoming programmatic: open routers, agent-to-agent marketplaces what a time to startup 220
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026the startup playbook increasingly looking like 1. killer app 2. hot market 3. distribute the hell out of it (or skip all three and sell a course, that's still an option) 200
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026you absolutely need to sell your product, no argument there but don’t kill your app’s magic. you know why? because that’s the growth loop build what people need. make it something they love using 100
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026pro tip: if marketing your app next week feels unbearable buy a domain tonight. you’ll feel like a founder again 110
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026update: new activity record for our hackathon x accelerator📈 23 builders currently online. that’s real signal deadline: august 31 drop your MVP for fun. 10 minutes later, you’re in the top 20. we’ll run it again in september, oct. and beyond 🙌 join here: hackwithus.dev/join 010
Saïd Aitmbarek @saidaitmbarek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026your MVP starts with a killer feature your business starts with a killer growth loop 100